The book studies and compares causes, catalysts and consequences of democratic regression and revival in South, Southeast, and Northeast Asia.
The Asia-Pacific presents social scientists with a natural laboratory to test competing theories of democratic erosion, decay, and revival and to identify new patterns and relationships. This volume combines conceptual and comparative research with single case studies. Overall, the collection of studies in this volume captures different forms of democratic regression and autocratization, examine how Asia-Pacific experiences fit into debates about democracys deepening global recession and what the Asia-Pacific experiences contribute to the understanding of the causes, catalysts, and consequences of democratic regression and resilience in the comparative politics literature.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Democratization.
This book captures forms of democratic regression and autocratization, examines how Asia-Pacific experiences fit into debates about democracys deepening global recession and what Asia-Pacific experiences contribute to understanding of causes, catalysts, consequences of democratic regression and resilience in comparative politics literature.
Introduction: democratic regression in Asia
1. Democratic regression in
comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes
2. Erosion or decay?
Conceptualizing causes and mechanisms of democratic regression
3. Democratic
decoupling
4. Elite capture, civil society and democratic backsliding in
Bangladesh, Thailand and the Philippines
5. Agents of resistance and revival?
Local election monitors and democratic fortunes in Asia
6. Pushback after
backsliding? Unconstrained executive aggrandizement in the Philippines versus
contested military-monarchical rule in Thailand
7. Democratic deconsolidation
in East Asia: exploring system realignments in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
8.
Sources of resistance to democratic decline: Indonesian civil society and its
trials
9. The pathway of democratic backsliding in Bangladesh
10. Exporting
autocracy: how China's extra-jurisdictional autocratic influence caused
democratic backsliding in Hong Kong
11. Chinas new regional responsiveness:
passive agency and counter-agency in processes of democratic transitions in
Asia
12. Democratic backsliding, regional governance and foreign policymaking
in Southeast Asia: ASEAN, Indonesia and the Philippines
Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany. His main research interests include the comparative analysis of political structures and processes in East and Southeast Asia, the theoretical and empirical analysis of democracy, civil-military relations, terrorism, and political violence.
Jeffrey Haynes is Emeritus Professor of Politics at London Metropolitan University, UK. His areas of expertise are religion and international relations, religion and politics, and democracy and democratization. His publications include more than 50 books, most recently: The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Politics and Ideology (ed.) (2022) and Trump & the Politics of Neo-Nationalism. The Christian Right and Secular Nationalism in America (2021).
